The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-12-17

sign OF fellowship. ssGreet all brethren
with holy kiss, " writes st. Paul to
the Thessaloniaps, .and to the Romans.
sssalute one another with holy kiss"
Many OF the practices In vogue
among lovers ct the present day In re.
gard to kissing may be traced back to
distant ages. The-ocritus makes one
Of his heroines say: 81 wipe my
mouth and spit out your Kisses" In
another place ne makes a rustic ex-
claim "I love not AIcippe for but
lately she did kiss me, having caught
me by the cara" This mode of salu-
tation Suidas calls the pot kiss, allud-
Ing to the double handle of q pot. It
was afterward called the Florentine,
and wae usually bestowed as mark
Of nnusnal tenderness. The following !
10 from one of Horace's odes;
ssWhile now her bending neck she plies,
Backward to meet the burning kiss;
Then Nth an easy cruelty dsnass not
the bliss"
Shakespeare has given the world
some remarkable kisses. In the "Ta-
ming of the Shrew," Petruchi0 takes
the bride about the neck and kisses
he lips
That ct the parting, all the church did
echo"
In "Richard." we are presented with
the following:
..Their lips were four red roses on q stalk.
And, In their summer beauty, kissed each
other"
Antlsony and Ge0pataru "kfss away
Kingdoms and provinces"
In the "Winter's Tale" we have
"kissing with the inside lip" and In
"Cymbsline;' reference is made to the
aversion which fathers have to see
their daughters kissed by an unfavo-
red suttOr.
..lcre could
Give him that parting kiss, which had
Betwixt two charming words, comes in my
AND, like the tyrannous breathing Of the
L North,
Shakes all our buds from growing"
AS to whether it be wrong to kiss,
1 We refer the reader to Burns:
..Some say that kissing's sin:
But think it's none ava,
For kissing has wound III this world
i Since ever there was twa.
Oht lift wasna lawful
i awyern wadna allow 1t;
fit wasna holy
Ministers wadna do it;
| II it waSna modest
! Maidens Wadna take it;
/ fit wasna plenty
i Poor folk waona get It,"
In the days of our fathers 1t was the
iprivilege Of the drives to kiss his fair
jcompanion every time they passed q
ItOIl gate, or crossed bridge. Some
times they claimed 1t whether they
did so or not, as We learn from w. w.
Story, who tells us Of a sleigh ride he
took ssmany year ago: :"
1--WE talk and then are silent;
And suddenly-you know why
stooped~conld help ita You lifted
We kissed there was nobody nigh"
4 Aud he goes on to rejoice because,
/ among other things, they heard "no
paterpal curse"
In the days of Sir Walter Scott, as
| we learn from his Fair Maid of Perth,
.lhe maiden who ventured to kiss q
sleeping man won of him a pair Of
lgloves."
I OF the many kissing games we played
As children we need make no mention,
nor of the many times our lips met
| with those of each new love. What
need we care that they are all welded
now, while we are now left to plod
l NOuk tuo ISuO Va lAo oOIA&uly ouO
alone. II is the old, old story OF Schon
Rohrtraut and her page:
sTho' she were crowned her suitor's queen
| Upon the coming morn, what need care;
| For do not all the forests leaflets wot
That I nave kissed Schon Rohrtraut's
j beauteous mouth?''
Who has not? You grim old man,
whom life's hard hammering has
hardened into a wretch, is to the world
a greedy skinflint with a single thought
and yet who knows but in his desert
heart there is an oasis of love and
tenderness; and often when we fancy
him thinking about his money he is In
reality dreaming happily OF when, in
years gone by, beneath the thickening
gloam of some leafy forest, he kissed
his own dear Rohrlrau!'s mouth.
We Can not more happily conclude
our paper than by quoting the answer
of the celebrated painter, Benjamin
/ West, who, when asked what 1t was
that urged him on in his ascent up the
steep hill of fame, replied, ga kiss
from my mother made me II painter"
The committee on the I'd of January
will not be the mouth-piece to ratify
/ the DEGREES of half dozsn bosses. The
people will speak in their sovereign
capacity ,aud every white Democrat
will have an equal voice.
A Grand Tribute.